Alabama's Ashley Miles Greig Honored as SEC Women's Legend on Thursday
3/5/2020 12:20:00 PM | Gymnastics
The four-time NCAA champion is the 20th Alabama student-athlete to be honored as a conference legend
GREENVILLE, S.C. – On Thursday, the Southeastern Conference confirmed what Alabama fans have known from the very beginning of her Crimson Tide gymnastics career, Ashley Miles Greig is a legend.
Greig was honored at halftime of Alabama's first game of the women's basketball conference tournament against Georgia as an SEC Women's Legend for a 2003-06 career that saw her win 20 individual postseason titles, including four NCAA championships.
"Ashley is so deserving of this honor," UA head coach Dana Duckworth, who was an assistant coach for the Tide during Greig's career, said. "She was a game changer. She was so powerful, but at the same time had an amazing style and energy to her gymnastics. Whenever and wherever she was competing, all eyes in the arena were on her. We're so proud of all she has accomplished and what she has meant to our program and the SEC as a whole."
The 2006 Honda Award (national gymnast of the year) winner, Greig earned her third NCAA vault title that season as a senior, making her just the second gymnast in NCAA history, and first in over twenty years, to win a trio of vault titles during a career. It was her fourth overall NCAA title, vault 2003, 2004 and 2005; floor exercise 2004.
Greig earned All-America recognition a dozen times in her career, all of which were first-team honors. She also won the NCAA West Region floor exercise and vault titles in 2006, closing out her career with four consecutive regional wins on both events.
She was also the first gymnast in SEC history to win a single event four years in a row, earning a career sweep of the floor exercise title at the conference championships. The 2006 NCAA Central Region Gymnast of the Year, she finished her career with twenty postseason championships, including four NCAA, six SEC and ten NCAA Regional championships.
The 20th SEC Women's Legend for the Tide, Greig joins Niesa Johnson (basketball, 2001), Lillie Leatherwood (track & field, 2002), Linda Burgess (basketball, 2003), Yolanda Watkins (basketball, 2004), Pauline Davis Thompson (track & field, 2005), Penney Hauschild Buxton (gymnastics, 2006), Shelly Pyles Cunningham (basketball, 2007), Carol Smith (basketball, 2008), Cassandra Crumpton Moorer (basketball, 2009), Andreé Pickens Houston (gymnastics, 2010), Shalonda Enis (basketball, 2011), Kelly Kretschman (softball, 2012), Dominique Canty (basketball, 2013), Martha Lang Jones (golf, 2014), Erin Heffner Ventress (volleyball, 2015), Coach Sarah Patterson (gymnastics, 2016), Stacy Potter Inman (swimming & diving, 2017), Beth Mallory Lesch (track & field, 2018) and Coach Rick Moody (basketball, 2019).
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